I participated in "The Garden of Soul", Virtual Art Exhibition, with the painting "The embrace of love" and "In search of the sky"

-Title: "The embrace of love"
-Year: 2013
-Measures: 120x100
-Mixed technique
- Support: canvas

Critical comments by Elisabetta La Rosa Art Historian, Art Writer, Art curator

"A timeless, eternal embrace, like love that has no temporal and spatial dimensions and embraces the infinite."
They are fixed roots in the soil of love, they are two trees that intersect and unite, one is the complement of the other. They are two lives that merge and mingle in the garden of the soul.
The artist manifests through nature its essence rooted in the soil of life that draws the lifeblood from the fertile and porous Mother Earth. Its foundations are constituted by love intended as an infinite feeling embodied by the branches of the two trees that radiate towards the sky.
Retracing the "embraces" of the great masters of art, the reference to Klimt about the Tree of Life series is strong, where the branches branch out leading to the embrace: two bodies close in the warmth of the enveloping gesture. Maristella recalls the human figure by means of the two stems which are joined by the roots and the branches. A profound, intense union, beyond all appearances.
Strong is the emotional and visual impact with Maristella's works full of feelings and expressive force.
-Title: "In search of the sky"
-Year: 2015
-Measures: 80x60
-Technique: acrylic

The light pierces the darkness of the human mind, opens hearts and gives life. The yellow branches also branch beyond the work, rise to the sky touching the soul of the beholder.
"A tree lights up with the light of the sun, it becomes light itself to overcome the darkness of the minds that cannot value art and artists. The many problems, the dramas, the pains, the joys and the life itself. The tree elevates its branches, above what oppresses, to seek light, sky, dreams and hope, strength and tenacity.
Together, like many branches that branch off from the same tree, united by the awareness of being people, with the same dignity, the same origin, the human one.
Above the borders of ethnic groups, wars, destruction and massacres, the union of beings who cry for peace, brotherhood, harmony and respect, honesty and dignity.
Art can unite people! "
A unifying message that the artist wants to give to the world, the desire to go. Above all in a moment like this: we are all united, close, there are no differences.
All together towards new awareness, a new life that branches out from the boundaries of man's horizons.